What do you do once you’re completed with the Resident Evil 4 Remake? Play it once more? Dive proper into Resident Evil 5? The latter would possibly appear to be the logical possibility, although it suffers from an absence of floppy-haired ex-cops. However there’s all the time the danger that, simply as you’re about to homicide Wesker for the crime of carrying sun shades indoors, Capcom pronounces it is remaking that one too.
As an alternative, why not throw numerical order to the wind and discover among the many side-entries that the Resident Evil sequence has spawned? We’re not speaking about Resident Evil – Code: Veronica or Resident Evil Revelations both – there are extra unnumbered Resident Evil video games than you’ll be able to shake a rocket launcher at.
So, we’ve rounded up among the sequence’ spin-offs, ones that you just perhaps haven’t crossed paths with. Some are comparatively simple to pay money for, whereas a couple of are wallet-offendingly costly. However when you’re a Resident Evil fanatic, every completely deserves a play.
Resident Evil Survivor (PlayStation 1 – 2000)
Overlook Resident Evil 7: Biohazard, Resident Evil Survivor was providing first-person zombie-ventilating shenanigans way back to the house yr 2000. A part of the Gun Survivor sequence, it isn’t a rail shooter regardless of supporting Namco’s G-Con 45 gentle gun.
As an alternative, you roam round in first individual then swap to concentrating on mode, taking out no matter abomination is shuffling or leaping in the direction of you. Sadly, you’ll be able to’t transfer and shoot on the identical time, a “function” that may later crop up within the unique Resident Evil 4.
However Resident Evil: Survivor’s first individual view does make fight extra satisfying. It additionally means you’ll be able to’t blame the wonky digicam angles or tank controls when a zombie begins chewing in your backbone.
Throw in an offshore Umbrella facility and an amnesiac protagonist (this was earlier than each different horror recreation was doing it) and also you’ve bought a title that, regardless of its age, remains to be somewhat enjoyable. It was adopted by two extra Resident Evil entries and Dino Stalker, a Dino Disaster recreation.
Resident Evil Gaiden (Gameboy Color – 2001)
The bold Sport Boy Color model of Resident Evil might have been canned however Nintendo’s handheld nonetheless bought its personal BOW-bashing journey, Resident Evil Gaiden. Its canonicity is very questionable but it surely, not Resident Evil 4, marked Leon Kennedy’s return to the franchise. And it was doing zombies-on-an-ocean-liner nicely earlier than Resident Evil: Revelations.
Even now, we nonetheless query the knowledge of its timing-based fight system. However we’re suckers for team-up, with each Leon and Resident Evil 1’s Barry Burton taking over a shape-shifting monster that may solely be distinguished by its inexperienced blood.
Sadly, its cliffhanger ending was by no means resolved and it’s at the moment going for foolish cash on eBay. Nonetheless there’s a fan-remake, Challenge Starlight, at the moment underway.
Resident Evil Outbreak (PlayStation 2 – 2003)
Resident Evil Outbreak was, in its heyday, all about co-operating along with your fellow gamers to flee the zombie-infested metropolis of Raccoon Metropolis. Its on-line performance has lengthy since been shut down however this third-person Resi recreation (which later acquired a semi-sequel) can nonetheless be performed solo.
What makes it fascinating, even with out its multiplayer, is how unremarkable the sport’s choice of protagonists is. The closest they’ve come to take care of brainless, shambling zombies is engaged on Black Friday.
Resident Evil 2 remake’s The Ghost Survivors DLC does contact on this idea, however in Outbreak, it provides an additional dose of unease. Sure, you’re technically the sport’s protagonist (or protagonists) however there’s all the time the nagging feeling that you just’re a side-character in another person’s story.
Resident Evil: Useless Goal (PlayStation 2 – 2003)
Resident Evil: Revelations wasn’t even the second Resi recreation to happen on an ocean liner. Resident Evil: Useless Goal, launched almost ten years earlier, additionally has you all at sea, for the primary half of the sport a minimum of.
It’s the fourth and ultimate entry within the Gun Survivor sequence however, in contrast to the primary, solely switches to a primary individual view once you’re aiming. It additionally introduces two new characters, U.S. agent Bruce McGivern and Chinese language operative Fong Ling.
Aboard the liner, these two are the only representatives of their governments, every of that are being held to ransom by villain Morpheus D. Duvall. Regardless of some shaky voice-acting, they’re a likeable pair. Sadly, aside from a fleeting look in a few card battlers, they’ve been consigned to obscurity.
Resident Evil Confidential Report (cellular – 2006)
Again within the early to mid 2000s, earlier than Android and iPhone mobiles got here alongside, a number of huge corporations had been placing out Java video games. These weren’t knock-offs of the “Elsa from Frozen will get mind surgical procedure” selection, both, these had been correct, licensed video games. Nonetheless, their precise high quality different immensely.
We don’t advocate you dive down that rabbit gap, however Resident Evil Confidential Report, one among many (largely retired) Resident Evil cellular video games stands above Capcom’s different cellular choices. It’s a little bit brief on terror but it surely dares to do one thing completely different and is, thus far, the one turn-based Resident Evil recreation.
Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles (Wii, PlayStation 3 – 2009)
Capcom might not have introduced a contemporary Resident Evil: Code Veronica remake however they’ve recycled the sport for each Resident Evil Survivor 2 – Code: Veronica and Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles.
Nonetheless, this follow-up to Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles, doesn’t simply reimagine Resident Evil: Code Veronica and Resident Evil 2 as rail shooters. It additionally explores among the occasions that lead as much as Resident Evil 4. Questioning why Krauser fell to the darkish facet? You’ll discover out right here.
Out of all these titles it’s additionally the best to pay money for. For those who’re a PlayStation Plus Premium subscriber it’s a part of the PlayStation Plus Classics Catalogue, bundled along with The Umbrella Chronicles. The latter, whereas delivering much less in the best way of latest plot revelations, options an entertaining slice of Sizzling Wesker Motion.
There are different Resident Evil entries to discover however delve into these at your personal threat. Sure, we’re speaking about you, Umbrella Corps. You’re not Left 4 Useless, irrespective of the way you slice it. Who is aware of, by the point you’re completed with these, Resident Evil 6 Remake might have rolled round.
